Sure,
I visited Boulder for an 18 month visiting scholar post in 1992, and that dragged on a bit, and then kids, and life, and whoosh, suddenly it's 25 years later! I like Scotland/UK a lot, but at the time I left it was fairly tough to find jobs in technology.
Boulder is colder than Scotland, when it's cold, but it's a whole lot sunnier. It doesn't *feel* colder much of the time but we can, indeed, get feet of snow. In the summer and shoulder seasons it's generally quite pleasant. People here freak out if it rains for 2 days in a row, which makes me chuckle...
My first significant motorbike trip was a tour round all the way round the coast of Scotland on a Honda 50 in the 70's!! That was probably more dangerous than any riding I do on my K1300GT or R1100GS.
Doug
